A Scientometric Analysis And Assessment On Environmental Science Research Published By The Indian Academicians In Open Access Environment
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India has also faced numerous environmental challenges, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. This study aims to evaluate and analyses the research contribution on environmental science in India for the last five years. The required bibliographic information is obtained from an online Scopus database.
Material and Methods: This study is based on scientometric analysis of Indian environmental research, indexed in the Scopus database. The dataset is carefully examined in the Biblioshiny (using R-package bibliometrix) for analysis and VOSviewer for the visualization of the data. The exported data comprises of 3205 different documents published in open access environment under this study period was analysed using scientometric indicators and parameters.
Results: The analysis evident that there is a steady growth of literature during this period with average annual growth rate is 30.53% and average citation per documents is 1232. It is also found that total 10649 numbers of keywords are used by the authors. The total number of author found in this study is 13579, among which single authors belong to 111 and co-author per document belongs to 5.55 and the International co-authorship is 38.1%. The findings of the study show that ‘Sustainability (Switzerland)’ journal at the top contributor in field of environmental research and the trendiest topics were environmental pollution, Covid-19, Plastic and Micro-plastic. These research evaluations are benefited to the scientific community, researchers, funding agency, and policymakers to utilise these results to take decisions and directives on environmental science research across the globe.
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